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European citizens’ evaluation of the Common Agricultural Policy
Mata, F.; Dos-Santos, M. J. P. L.The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is crucial in ensuring food safety and security in Europe. Providing a stable and diverse food supply also supports rural economies and promotes social, environmental and economic sustainability. However, as CAP consumes approximately 30% of the EU budget, debates regarding its pertinence have arisen. This paper aimed to understand European citizens’ perceptions of CAP, its ...
Sustaining family bakeries in Pakistan: The role of internal marketing and entr...
Warraich, U. A.; Dos-Santos, M. J. P. L.Nowadays, climatic change challenges, consumer expectations, and concerns toward sustainability lead firms to consider responsible strategies for internal marketing and entrepreneurial orientation that contribute to competitive advantage and economic and environmental performance. This paper analyses the direct impact of internal marketing and entrepreneurial orientation on innovation and sustainability within ...
European citizens’ worries and self-responsibility towards climate change
Mata, F.; Jesus, M. S.; Cano-Díaz, C.; Dos-Santos, M. J. P. L.Attitudes and perceptions about climate change (CC) are crucial to public engagement and support in the promotion of mitigating actions and sustainable lifestyles embracing the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. This study aimed to investigate how worried are European citizens about CC, and what is their willingness to assume self-responsibility in its mitigation. We used the European Social Survey,...
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on South Asian stock markets
Jesus-Silva, N.; Baptista, N.; Dos-Santos, M. J. P. L.The main aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the world pandemic COVID-19 on the efficiency of capital markets in countries of South Asia, namely, the market efficiency of these stock markets in the pre and post-COVID-19 global wave. The method includes an econometric model based on time series analysis. Information and data come from the stock indices of Asian countries from July 2018 to July 2021. Th...
Attitudinal and behavioural differences towards farm animal welfare among consu...
Mata, F.; Dos-Santos, M. J. P. L.; Cocksedge, J.This study explores cross-cultural differences in consumers’ attitudes toward farm animal welfare (FAW) in BRIC countries. Questionnaires administered in each country contained the following questions: (i) “It is important to me that animals used for food are well cared for”, (ii) “The typical nationality thinks it is important that animals used for food are well cared for”, (iii) “Low meat prices are more impo...
Factors affecting banking performance in Pakistan: An empirical investigation
Ahmad, E. W; Naveed, M.; Dos-Santos, M. J. P. L.Pakistan is one of the economically emerging countries in South Asia. The current trends of Pakistan’s economy are on the path to outshining the former year’s growth rate. The unrelenting performances in the agriculture and services sector and outperformance of the large-scale manufacturing sector. Inflation and the fiscal deficit were confined, whereas revenue growth has surpassed last year’s level. However, P...
Smart and sustainable cities in the Mediterranean region: The contribution of s...
Dos-Santos, M. J. P. L.; Baptista, N.; Machado-Santos, C.The cities around the world in general, and in the Mediterranean area in particular, are facing tremendous challenges at the environmental, social, economic, and institutional levels, due to the urbanization trend, environmental climatic changes and challenges due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, cities need to be sustainable and smart in the future. An economically important and innovative sector i...
Equitable food distribution and sustainable development
Dos-Santos, M. J. P. L.Equitable Food Distribution (EFD) means producing, processing, and distributing food in a timely way to ensure food security for the entire population by the safe and healthy food access to all segments of the population on sustainable conditions from production to the global distribution. This phenomenon could occur in situation of crisis and emergency and also in poor regions with a strong deficit to access t...
Sustainability of European agricultural holdings
Dos-Santos, M. J. P. L.; Ahmad, N.European agricultural activity has an important contribution to European and global food security and also in the preservation of countryside and livelihood. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the agricultural sustainability of the twenty-eight Member States of the European Union in order to promote sustainable agriculture, food security and rural development in the European region. Information and data ...
Consumer preferences for aquaponics: A comparative analysis of Australia and Is...
Greenfeld, A.; Becker, N.; Bornman, J. F.; Dos-Santos, M. J. P. L.; Angel, D. R.Aquaponics, the combined rearing of fish and hydroponic horticulture, has great potential for sustainable food production. Despite increasing research and investments in commercial scale systems, aquaponics is not yet a successful industry and most businesses report negative returns. Aquaponic produce is thought to contain added value to the consumer, and the environment. As most consumers are unaware of aquapo...